Hi everyone,
Laura and I have spent the last eight months working on a new app that we’re excited to release today. It’s called [Better](https://better.fyi) and it’s a content blocker for iPhone and iPad.
Read all about it on our blog post [Introducing Better](https://ind.ie/blog/better/).

Regarding Android, it’s be great to have Android on Better. However, Google have officially banned ad blockers from Google Play (http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/01/google-explicitly-bans-ad-blockers-from-the-play-store-except-all-those-ad-blocking-web-browsers-apparently/). So the only way to make a tracker/web malware blocker for Android is to create your own browser—that’s a very different challenge.

As most people use the system browser or one of the other popular browsers on Android, and are tracked constantly and natively by Google on the platform, it would both be an uphill battle and offer a false sense of security.

Since we're just two people, we have to focus our energies on where they can have the most impact.

That said, the code is freely available and all of the blocking rules are available under Creative Commons ShareAlike, so anyone can port it to Android if they want to help with that

I've installed Better (on a 6s) and I'm thrilled to have it. Still - how do I know the app is acutally working? I'm not casting doubt, just curious.Also, would using an adblocker (eg Adblock) work, alongside Better, or would one interfere with the other, or perhaps render it useless?

Also, would using an adblocker (eg Adblock) work, alongside Better, or would one interfere with the other, or perhaps render it useless?

Another adblocker will work fine alongside Better. They may well have duplicate blocking rules, though Better will probably block more as there’s no so-called “Acceptable Ads” and Better blocks invisible trackers as well as visible ads.

I just spent the past half hour going to different news sites and looking at the difference between having better enabled and turned off. I had some idea how much was added on by the trackers but seeing the difference was still a bit of a shock. This is amazing.

Thanks Laura, I should have thought of that myself - but I didn't so your example was very helpful I've tried different blockers on a pc and settled for uBlock, the interface of which shows just how many trackers are out there. I'm very pleased to have found a decent way of blocking them on the iPhone. Many thanks.